A workshop at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 18–28 July 2010
Applications are being accepted for a place in the 2010 session of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism. The program will span ten intensive days of lectures, seminars, public events, exhibitions and performances, and will also include explorations of Afropolitan Johannesburg.
The theme of the workshop is Techniques of Capital: Property, Self-Creation and Politics in Precarious Times, and will be held in Johannesburg from 18 to 28 July 2010.
The deadline for applications is March 31, 2010. Admissions to The Workshop are announced on April 10, 2010.
Visit the JWTC Web site for more information or to complete an application form. Alternatively, contact Leigh-Ann Naidoo, JWTC Administrator, at info@jwtc.org.za.
Participants
The workshop will bring together a range of top scholars to reflect on the nature of contemporary politics, economics and culture, including:
- Arjun Appadurai (New York University)
- John Comaroff (University of Chicago)
- Ranji Khanna (Duke University)
- Jean Comaroff (University of Chicago)
- Achille Mbembe (University of the Witwatersrand)
- Srinivas Aravamudan (Duke University)
- Ian Baucom (Duke University)
- Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape)
- Kelly Gillespie (University of the Witwatersrand)
- Edgar Pieterse (University of Cape Town)
- Isabel Hofmeyer (University of the Witwatersrand)
- Abdumaliq Simone (Goldsmiths College)
- Julia Hornberger (University of the Witwatersrand)
- David Goldberg (UC-Irvine)
- Sarah Nuttall (University of the Witwatersrand)
- Ato Quayson (University of Toronto)
- Thomas Blom Hansen (University of Amsterdam)
- Eric Worby (University of the Witwatersrand)
- Adi Ophir
- Ariella Azoulay